diff --git a/fs/dcache.c b/fs/dcache.c
index bb0c4d0038dbdc5a715edeab6e825c4bfe8b6b72..2ee8636016ee9e8ceca42517e43c8f2acec68c41 100644
--- a/fs/dcache.c
+++ b/fs/dcache.c
@@ -2597,15 +2597,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(d_rehash);
 
 static inline unsigned start_dir_add(struct inode *dir)
 {
-	/*
-	 * The caller holds a spinlock (dentry::d_lock). On !PREEMPT_RT
-	 * kernels spin_lock() implicitly disables preemption, but not on
-	 * PREEMPT_RT.  So for RT it has to be done explicitly to protect
-	 * the sequence count write side critical section against a reader
-	 * or another writer preempting, which would result in a live lock.
-	 */
-	if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT))
-		preempt_disable();
+	preempt_disable_nested();
 	for (;;) {
 		unsigned n = dir->i_dir_seq;
 		if (!(n & 1) && cmpxchg(&dir->i_dir_seq, n, n + 1) == n)
@@ -2618,8 +2610,7 @@ static inline void end_dir_add(struct inode *dir, unsigned int n,
 			       wait_queue_head_t *d_wait)
 {
 	smp_store_release(&dir->i_dir_seq, n + 2);
-	if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT))
-		preempt_enable();
+	preempt_enable_nested();
 	wake_up_all(d_wait);
 }